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July 31, 2017

PENDER critiques Reeves, Hood #NCF17 stump speeches

GEOFF PENDER: Stump speakin’ ain’t for everyone If either Attorney General Jim Hood or Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves is elected Mississippi’s next governor, it won’t be because of their public speaking, bless their hearts. Their back-to-back stump speeches were, ostensibly, the highlight of the political speech-i-fying at the Neshoba County Fair last week, a potential…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
July 31, 2017

Mississippi taxpayers on the hook for KiOR

Texas company KiOR hoodwinked Mississippi for $75M, documents show Then-Gov. Haley Barbour bragged in 2010 that the biofuel company KiOR would invest $500 million and create 1,000 jobs in Mississippi. He gushed about the project for which lawmakers loaned $75 million, saying, “We may look back and say it did more to change and do…